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  1. Public awareness of the hearing loss-dementia link and self-reported behavioral changes in middle- to older-aged Canadians 2026-09-26
  2. Patterns of modifiable lifestyle, behavioural and health-related risk factors and their associations with incident dementia in UK Biobank 2026-09-25
  3. Excess hypoglycaemia-related hospitalisation in older adults with comorbid type 2 diabetes and dementia: a UK Biobank cohort study 2026-09-16

Studies

1,140 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1978 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 134
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 52
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 33
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 32
  • JAMA neurology 28

362 journals in all.

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  1. Mild behavioral impairment and risk of dementia: a prospective cohort study of 358 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2009-03-24 Prevention and risk

    Thirty-four percent of MCI patients and over 70% of patients with MBI developed dementia (log-rank p = .011).

  2. Fall risk factors in older people with dementia or cognitive impairment: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of advanced nursing 2009-03-19 Clinical safety

    There is lack of sound studies examining fall risk factors in cognitively impaired elders.

  3. Uncontrolled diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease: a population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Diabetologia 2009-03-12 Vascular contributions

    Uncontrolled diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease and VaD.

  4. Fish consumption, long-chain omega-3 fatty acids and risk of cognitive decline or Alzheimer disease: a complex association

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Nature clinical practice. Neurology 2009-03-01 Prevention and risk

    Long-chain omega-3 fatty acids could have neuroprotective properties against dementia, which is becoming a major global public health issue.

  5. Midlife and late-life obesity and the risk of dementia: cardiovascular health study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-03-01 Lewy body dementia

    These results help explain the "obesity paradox" as differences in dementia risk across time are consistent with physical changes in the trajectory toward disability.

  6. The role of metabolic disorders in Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia: two roads converged

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-03-01 Risk factors

    In recent years a rapidly increasing number of studies has focused on the relationship between dementia and metabolic disorders such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and dyslipidemia.

  7. A statistically significant age-adjusted association was observed between the A1C level and the score on all four cognitive tests.

  8. Diabetes and the risk of multi-system aging phenotypes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. PloS one 2009-01-07 Risk factors

    Current evidence supports that DM is associated with increased risk for selected geriatric conditions.

  9. Midlife coffee and tea drinking and the risk of late-life dementia: a population-based CAIDE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2009-01-01 Prevention and risk

    Caffeine stimulates central nervous system on a short term.

  10. Vascular risk factors and dementia: how to move forward?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2009-01-01 Prevention and risk

    In recent years, accumulating evidence has suggested that vascular risk factors contribute to Alzheimer disease (AD).

  11. Mid- and late-life diabetes in relation to the risk of dementia: a population-based twin study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Diabetes 2008-10-24 Brain tissue and pathology

    We aimed to verify the association between diabetes and the risk of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and vascular dementia in twins and to explore whether genetic and early-life environmental factors could contribute to this association.

  12. Metabolic syndrome and risk for incident Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia: the Three-City Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Diabetes care 2008-10-22 Risk factors

    The observed relation between high triglycerides, diabetes, and vascular dementia emphasizes the need for detection and treatment of vascular risk factors in older individuals in order to prevent the likelihood of clinical dementia.

  13. Effect of infarcts on dementia in the Baltimore longitudinal study of aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2008-08-01 Caregiving

    Cerebrovascular disease is a significant and potentially preventable cause of dementia in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.

  14. Physical frailty in older persons is associated with Alzheimer disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2008-08-01 Caregiving

    Physical frailty in old age is associated with Alzheimer disease pathology in older persons with and without dementia.

  15. Incident dementia and blood pressure lowering in the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial cognitive function assessment (HYVET-COG): a double-blind, placebo controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2008-07-07 Getting a diagnosis

    Observational epidemiological studies have shown a positive association between hypertension and risk of incident dementia; however, the effects of antihypertensive therapy on cognitive function in controlled trials have been conflicting, and meta-analyses of the trials have not provided clear evidence of whether antihypertensive treatment reduces dementia incidence.

  16. Thyroid function and the risk of Alzheimer disease: the Framingham Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Archives of internal medicine 2008-07-01 Vascular contributions

    Low and high thyrotropin levels were associated with an increased risk of incident AD in women but not in men.

  17. Use of statins and incidence of dementia and cognitive impairment without dementia in a cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Neurology 2008-07-01 Vascular contributions

    Statin users were less likely to have incident dementia/cognitive impairment without dementia during a 5-year follow-up.

  18. Cardiovascular risk factors and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric pharmacotherapy 2008-06-01 Prevention and risk

    From a clinical perspective, these data further support the rationale for physicians to provide effective management of CVD risk factors and for patients to be compliant with such recommendations to possibly prevent cognitive decline/dementia.

  19. The worldwide challenge of the dementias: a role for B vitamins and homocysteine?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Food and nutrition bulletin 2008-06-01 Prevention and risk

    Dementia has reached epidemic proportions, with an estimated 4.6 million new cases worldwide each year.

  20. Cholesterol as a risk factor for dementia and cognitive decline: a systematic review of prospective studies with meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2008-05-01 Risk factors

    The relationships between total serum cholesterol (TC) and dementia and between TC and cognitive decline were investigated in a systematic review of 18 prospective studies.

  21. Central obesity and increased risk of dementia more than three decades later

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Neurology 2008-03-26 Risk factors

    Central obesity in midlife increases risk of dementia independent of diabetes and cardiovascular comorbidities.

  22. Obesity and central obesity as risk factors for incident dementia and its subtypes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity 2008-03-06 How common it is

    While dementia affects 6-10% of persons 65 years or older, industrialized countries have witnessed an alarming rise in obesity.

  23. Diabetes and other vascular risk factors for dementia: which factor matters most? A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. European journal of pharmacology 2008-03-04 Risk factors

    Vascular risk factors, such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, obesity and dyslipidaemia often co-occur.

  24. Lifestyle-related factors in predementia and dementia syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2008-01-01 Prevention trials

    Cognitive decline and dementia have a deep impact on the health and quality of life of older subjects and their caregivers.

  25. Pathways linking late-life depression to persistent cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience 2008-01-01 Prevention and risk

    There is a strong association between late-life depression, cognitive impairment, cerebrovascular disease, and poor cognitive outcomes, including progressive dementia, especially Alzheimer's disease.

  26. Physical exercise at midlife and risk of dementia three decades later: a population-based study of Swedish twins

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2008-01-01 Prevention and risk

    Exercise at midlife may reduce the odds of dementia in older adulthood, suggesting that exercise interventions should be explored as a potential strategy for delaying disease onset.

  27. Vascular risk factors, cognitive decline, and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Vascular health and risk management 2008-01-01 Prevention and risk

    Dementia is one of the most important neurological disorders in the elderly.

  28. Lifetime risk of stroke and dementia: current concepts, and estimates from the Framingham Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2007-12-01 Caregiving

    The main neurological causes of morbidity and mortality are stroke and dementia.

  29. Late-life body mass index and dementia incidence: nine-year follow-up data from the Kungsholmen Project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2007-11-20 Brain tissue and pathology

    Three-, 6-, and 9-year follow-up study.

  30. Prestroke cognitive performance, incident stroke, and risk of dementia: the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Stroke 2007-11-15 Long-term cohort studies

    Several studies indicate that stroke increases the risk of dementia.

  31. NSAID use and dementia risk in the Cardiovascular Health Study: role of APOE and NSAID type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2007-11-14 Genetics

    Use of NSAIDs was associated with a lower risk of dementia (adjusted hazard ratio or aHR 0.76, 95% CI or CI 0.60-0.96) and, in particular, AD (aHR 0.63, CI 0.45-0.88), but not VaD (aHR 0.92, CI 0.65-1.28).

  32. Dietary patterns and risk of dementia: the Three-City cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Neurology 2007-11-01 Genetics

    Frequent consumption of fruits and vegetables, fish, and omega-3 rich oils may decrease the risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease, especially among ApoE epsilon 4 noncarriers.

  33. Pathological correlates of dementia in a longitudinal, population-based sample of aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2007-10-01 How common it is

    Previously published community- or population-based studies of brain aging and dementia with autopsy were restricted to a single sex, a single ethnic group, Roman Catholic clergy, or focused pathological assessments.

  34. Tooth loss, dementia and neuropathology in the Nun study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2007-10-01 Risk factors

    Participants with the fewest teeth had the highest risk of prevalence and incidence of dementia.

  35. Relation between smoking and risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease: the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2007-09-01 Long-term cohort studies

    We re-assessed after longer follow-up time in the large population-based cohort of the Rotterdam Study whether smoking habits and pack-years of smoking are associated with the risk of dementia, Alzheimer disease (AD), and vascular dementia (VaD).

  36. Type 2 diabetes and risk of cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2007-09-01 Caregiving

    Diabetes is a major public health burden.

  37. Increased risk of cognitive impairment or dementia in women who underwent oophorectomy before menopause

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2007-08-29 How common it is

    Women who underwent either unilateral or bilateral oophorectomy before the onset of menopause had an increased risk of cognitive impairment or dementia compared to referent women (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.46; 95% CI 1.13 to 1.90; adjusted for education, type of interview, and history of depression).

  38. Inflammation, depression and dementia: are they connected?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurochemical research 2007-08-20 Risk factors

    Chronic inflammation is now considered to be central to the pathogenesis not only of such medical disorders as cardiovascular disease, multiple sclerosis, diabetes and cancer but also of major depression.

  39. Simvastatin is associated with a reduced incidence of dementia and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. BMC medicine 2007-07-19 Risk factors

    We observed that simvastatin is associated with a significant reduction in the incidence of dementia in subjects > or =65 years, using any of three models.

  40. Smoking as a risk factor for dementia and cognitive decline: a meta-analysis of prospective studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 2007-06-14 Risk factors

    The authors assessed the association of smoking with dementia and cognitive decline in a meta-analysis of 19 prospective studies with at least 12 months of follow-up.

  41. Antipsychotic drug use and mortality in older adults with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 2007-06-01 How common it is

    Atypical antipsychotic use is associated with an increased risk for death compared with nonuse among older adults with dementia.

  42. Atherosclerosis and risk for dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2007-05-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Atherosclerosis has been implicated in the development of dementia and its major subtypes, Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.

  43. CIND and MCI in the Italian elderly: frequency, vascular risk factors, progression to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2007-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Both cognitive impairment, no dementia and mild cognitive impairment are frequent in the Italian elderly (2,955,000 prevalent cases expected) and significantly predict progression to dementia.

  44. Body mass index in midlife and risk of Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2007-04-01 How common it is

    Prior work has suggested that obesity and overweight as measured by body mass index (BMI) increases risk of dementia.

  45. Subjective memory complaints, education, and risk of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2007-03-23 Long-term cohort studies

    Although memory complaints are associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease in persons with cognitive impairment as well as in persons with normal cognition, they are commonly considered of less importance than objective cognitive measures.

  46. Measures of adiposity and dementia risk in elderly persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-03-01 Vascular contributions

    The prospective association between adiposity and dementia differs depending on the anthropometric measure used, and is modified by age.

  47. Arterial stiffness, cognitive decline, and risk of dementia: the Rotterdam study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Stroke 2007-02-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Vascular factors and stroke are associated with cognitive function and dementia.

  48. Diabetes is related to cerebral infarction but not to AD pathology in older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2006-12-01 Caregiving

    Subjects were 233 older Catholic clergy in the Religious Orders Study, who underwent detailed annual evaluations, including neuropsychological testing, and brain autopsy at time of death (mean age 86 years, 45% men).

  49. Diabetes mellitus and risk of developing Alzheimer disease: results from the Framingham Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-11-01 Vascular contributions

    Diabetes mellitus did not increase the risk of incident AD in the Framingham cohort overall; however, DM may be a risk factor for AD in the absence of other known major AD risk factors.

  50. Plasma phosphatidylcholine docosahexaenoic acid content and risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease: the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-11-01 Prevention and risk

    Ninety-nine new cases of dementia (including 71 of Alzheimer disease) occurred during the follow-up.

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